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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

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“Control towers are the artificial intelligence (AI) of supply chain. Leading executives focus on building resilient and intelligent supply chains that can withstand the turmoil due to data-based proactive decisions. Everyone wants to have it, but nobody quite knows how it works.” Christian Titze, vice president analyst at Gartner.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

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Supply chain practitioners and CEOs surveyed by 6river share that the main challenges of the industry are: keeping up with the rapidly changing customer demand, dealing with delays and disruptions, inefficient planning, lack of automation, rising costs (of transportation, labor, etc.), Supply chain management process.

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Fleet Maintenance Software: Technology Behind Preventive and Predictive Vehicle Servicing

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Fleet owners in trucking , car rental , delivery, and other transportation companies know that poorly maintained vehicles burn more fuel, require frequent oiling, and go kaput every other mile. Taking good care of your fleet assets pays off by prolonging their lifecycle, increasing efficiency, and reducing the probability of failures.

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Terminal Operating Systems: Main Features, Integration, and Providers Overview

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A global business news channel CNBC created Supply Chain Heat Maps to track the levels of container terminal performance. For example, in the US, the situation in the Port of Oakland is the worst with vessels taking an average of six days to unload and load (import containers are waiting for eleven days to get transported).

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Rail Fleet Management: How Technologies Help Handle Asset Tracking and Maintenance in Freight Rail Industry

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Railroads are an indispensable part of the supply chain when transporting both bulk shipments and intermodal containers. Most businesses mainly focus on asset tracking and maintenance, but there are more activities involved. All the rest are smaller, regional/short-line operators that connect industries to supply sources (e.g.,

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

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And that episode was not a one-off. The first CRS appeared in the 1960s was SABRE (Semi-Automated Business Research Environment) , which later evolved into one of three major global distribution systems (GDSs). Except that we are describing real-life situations caused by small failures in the computer system.